We are very excited to announce that we have now added Phonics supports to our Chekhov cloud services and tools – allowing early-grade teachers (and teachers of English as a foreign language) to create free eBook resources which will read themselves aloud to learners on any Windows or Windows Phone device. 
Anyone, anywhere can access these Azure-based services and create a new eBook in a matter of minutes. Every book they create can be published as a Windows 8 App, a Windows Phone App and as a free print-on-demand PowerPoint file. Educators (and students) can add their text, illustrations/photos and recorded audio - which will now include narrated audio for the phonemes which construct each word, which as we know is of huge educational value to beginning readers.
- Download a sample App from Diana Sharp hereand encourage your fellow educators to access the free Chekhov tools at the www.lit4life.net website.
- For a short video tutorial showing how to use the Chekhov tools to create your own eBooks go here.
- You can also create an eBook directly from your Windows Phone! Simply download the Chekhov Story Author Apphere.